(a) loose connective tissue (in early use esp. adipose tissue) (cf. cellular tissue n.) (now disused); (b) = cell membrane n. at cell, n.1…

(a) loose connective tissue (cf. cellular membrane n. (a)) (now rare); (b) tissue composed of (many) cells; esp. the parenchyma of plants…

Consisting of areolæ, full of interstices; spec. in areolar tissue: the mixture of fibrous and elastic tissue, which underlies the skin, and connects…

Phys. connective tissue n. one of the tissues of the animal body, derived from the mesoblast, which serves to connect and support the various…

= connective tissue.

Having the property or effect of conjoining; serving to conjoin or unite; connective. conjunctive tissue n. connective tissue.

Physiology. = connective tissue n. at sense A. 2.